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The “Remain in Mexico” migration policy enacted by the Trump administration has affected more than 71,000 people since it began in 2019. Of those caught in the fray, 30% are children, a new report shows.
More than 21,000 of those affected by the policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, are under the age of 18, according to data from U.S. immigration courts. The data was analyzed by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
The majority of the children are from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, and just under half are between the ages of 5 and 11.
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